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Prince Philip’s Malthusians launch New Age killer cults

by Mark Burdman and Roger Moore

In 1988, Britain’s Prince Philip expressed the wish that, the 1970s, the same State Department nest played a prominent should he be reincarnated, he would want to be a deadly virus role in producing the Jimmy Carter White House’s Global that would reduce world .1 Today, his wish is find- 2000 atrocity. The official State Department Coordinator for ing expression in a proliferation of bizarre, Malthusian group- Global 2000, Lindsey Grant, is, today, a seminal figure in lets, killer cults, which openly, on the Internet and elsewhere, NPG. Grant’s current State Department successor, Tim call for actions to dramatically reduce , if Wirth, is praised by NPG is “the best Deputy Secretary of not to eliminate the human race in its entirety, on behalf of State for Population and Environment we’ve had in a long “Mother Earth,” or “Gaia.” time.” These groups are not just some lunatic fringe that can be With its propaganda for a massive reduction of the Ameri- brushed aside; they are the shock-troops of Prince Philip and can population, NPG serves the purposes of those British the British oligarchy. They have names like the Church of forces, in the environs of Prince Philip, who have openly Euthanasia, the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, and stated their intention to destroy the United States, to break the the Gaia Liberation Front. They represent a more radical ver- country into separate and competing “bio-regions,” over the sion of such clones of Prince Philip’s World Wide Fund for coming years. Nature (WWF), as Earth First! and other eco-terrorist organi- What makes all this more alarming, is the May 1 election zations.2 of Tony Blair as British prime minister. According to a key In recent decades, it has been the desire of Prince Philip figure in Britain’s leading neomalthusian lobbying organiza- and his WWF minions, that “Mother Earth worship” be taught tion, Population Concern, the Blair government is much more to children, from the elementary school level on up. Is it open to “policies of population limitation” than was the previ- surprising, that certain unstable members of the younger gen- ous John Major government. Population Concern, whose of- eration could be programmed to grow up in such an enraged ficial patron is Prince Philip, sponsored a speech on July 10, state, that they would wish to destroy the human race? before the British All-Party Group on Population in the British The killer cults, furthermore, are just the gutter expression Parliament, by Clare Short, Blair’s minister for overseas de- of ideas that are freely set forth, by “respectable” groups and velopment. institutions, in universities and think-tanks, and by individu- The Population Concern source, who maintains regular als who have held high-level posts in the U.S. government. liaison with NPG head Donald Mann in the United States, is These are primarily grouped around an entity called Negative hopeful that Short will follow in the footsteps of her predeces- (NPG), which was created in 1972, and sor as overseas development minister, Baroness Lynda which has become more brazenly homicidal in recent years. Chalker, who is seen as the one figure in the Major regime NPG and its offshoots are effectively the implementation who had a strong bias for “population limitation” policies. As tools of a section of the U.S. State Department, which, during readers of EIR know, Baroness Chalker is a controller of Henry Kissinger’s reign as Secretary of State, produced, in the African governments and military units now committing 1974, the National Security Study Memorandum 200 genocide in what used to be Zaire. (NSSM-200) report, “Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests.” Later in ‘Save the planet, kill yourself’ Over the past months, increasing attention has been drawn to the , based in Boston, Massachu- 1. As reported by Deutsche Press Agentur, August 1988. See also the Prince’s foreword to Fleur Cowles, People as Animals (United Kingdom: Robin Clark setts, and headed by the self-professed “Reverend” Chris Ltd., 1986). Korda, the son of New York-based author Michael Korda. 2. See “Prince Philip Deploys Worldwide Green Terrorism,” EIR, Jan. 13, Chris Korda is a biological male who often dresses in wom- 1995. en’s clothes. In November 1996, the German magazine Der

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© 1997 EIR News Service Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. Promoters of the “culture of death,” left to right: U.S. Deputy Secretary of State for Population and Environment Tim Wirth, Britain’s Prince Philip, and Jack “Doctor Death” Kevorkian.

Spiegel published a three-page expose´ of this “Church,” re- 1,” issued at that time, proclaimed: “Our mission is the total porting that it had some 1,000 members in the United States, liberation of the Earth, which can be accomplished only and was growing. through the extinction of the Humans as a species. . . . Every In its literature, Korda’s group advocates “suicide, abor- Human now carries the seeds of terracide. If any Humans tion, cannibalism, and sodomy,” while its title promotes the survive, they may start the whole thing over again. Our policy fifth means of what it calls “massive voluntary population is to take no chances.” The GLF explains, in its literature, that reduction”: euthanasia. One of its heroes is Jack “Dr. Death” it capitalizes the word “Humans,” because it regards human Kevorkian. Among its slogans, promoted on the Internet, are beings as an “alien species,” who have genetically pro- “Save the planet, kill yourself,” “Thank you for not breeding,” grammed “technological propensities” that must inevitably “Learn to masturbate.” A Church “Commandment” reads, end up destroying “Gaia.” “Thou should not procreate!” Korda writes that he would The GLF fumes, “The Humans have been usefully com- have, long ago, killed himself, except that he decided it were pared to a cancer or a virus. . . . What does a surgeon do with better that he stay around, to bring about the progressive elimi- a cancer?” The “Humans” are particularly obstreperous, GLF nation of the rest of the members of the human species. complains, because they always promote their dignity and Korda praises the work of Paul (“Population Bomb”) Ehr- self-worth, as in the passage from Shakespeare’s Hamlet: lich, a mainstay of the NPG. “What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason!” There Korda, who abhors the institution of the nuclear family, can only be one solution for such a species, according to the promotes what he calls “Our Family Album” of alleged sup- GLF: “extermination.” porters and members of the Church of Euthanasia. The album In a document called “A Modest Proposal,” cynically includes a photo of none other than Henry Kissinger! A lead- spoofing Jonathan ’s devastating attack on British geno- ing anti-Malthusian investigator in Germany has raised the cidalists, the GLF discusses various possible methods for ex- point, that while this may be a phony photo-montage, the fact terminating the human species. It rejects nuclear war (bad is that Kissinger has not repudiated the appearance of his mug for the environment), sterilization (not fast enough, whether in this location. voluntary or involuntary), and suicide (too narrow in applica- tion), but then exclaims about the potentials represented by ‘Eliminate the human species’ “bioengineering.” This can produce “genetically engineered Korda is a regular “discussion partner” with the more viruses” that will attack “only the target species.” They con- secretive Gaia Liberation Front, based in Toronto, Canada. tinue: “To complicate the search for a cure or a vaccine, and The GLF was launched on Earth Day 1990. Its “Communique´ as insurance against the possibility that some Humans might

EIR July 18, 1997 Feature 23 be immune to a particular virus, several different viruses phase ourselves out. We’re incompatible with the biosphere.” could be released (with provision being made for the release In the same breath that he expressed his affection, as a school- of a second round after the generals and the politicians had teacher, for children, he said that the appropriate slogan for come out of their shelters).” the times in which we are living, would be: “Make love, not In another document, there is a dialogue between the Vol- babies.” untary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT) and the One creature who is favorably cited by these grouplets, is GLF, published in the VHEMT publication, These Exit Times. the Finnish , and self-proclaimed “eco-fascist,” Pentti Someone calling himself or herself “Spokesorganism Geo- Linkola. Linkola is quite a celebrity in Finland, with a sub- philus” declares, “We would welcome the escape of any new stantial following. In his Finland Who’s Who entry, he lists anti-Human viruses—such as the airborne version of AIDS his hobby as “destroying human culture.” that might result from AIDS research on mice.” According to Linkola’s views were made known to a wide English- Geophilus, war is not such an “efficient” means of human language readership, in a May 24, 1994 front-page feature in elimination, as it doesn’t kill enough people. “But every little the Wall Street Journal-Europe, elements of which were then bit helps.” Asked what it thinks about genocide, the Spokesor- reported on, not unsympathetically, in a London Times com- ganism responds sympathetically, but frets that genocide usu- mentary by Lord William Rees-Mogg. Noting that Linkola ally refers only to the elimination of a specific ethnic or racial was in favor of “annihilating most of the human race,” the group, and is therefore “limited,” or even somewhat counter- Journal quoted him saying that a new world war would be “a productive, for reaching the aim of eliminating the whole happy occasion for the planet. . . . If there were a button I human race! could press, I would sacrifice myself without hesitating, if it Asked why it doesn’t commit suicide, Geophilus re- meant millions of people would die.” sponds: “If I merely believed in Human extinction, then of Linkola harbors a special hatred for the United States of course, you’d be right. But, in my judgment, the good I’m America, because “the United States symbolizes the worst doing by promoting the idea of Human extinction outweighs ideologies in the world: growth and freedom.” In his future the harm I’m doing by staying alive.” eco-fascist utopia, only “a few million” Americans would be In reviewing some of the “ideas” of the GLF, the which allowed to survive. he “unofficially” endorses, the Church of Euthanasia’s Korda What must rule the world, in the future, according to Lin- reports about “a group of scientists, including French chem- kola, are “green police,” unencumbered by the “syrup of eth- ists Jean-Michael DuPont and Henri Mevel, who are develop- ics” that governs human behavior today. They would keep ing a powerful toxin that will completely eliminate the human progress in check. People would work as fishermen and farm- species, without disturbing the other inhabitants of the bio- ers, and “everything we have developed over the last 100 sphere.” years should be destroyed.” These maniacs insist on eliminating all apes, since, they According to Linkola, “We still have a chance to be cruel. argue, invoking Darwinian theory, one day apes will become But if we are not cruel today, all is lost.” humans, and the onslaught against Gaia will then re-com- mence! ‘Respectable’ homicidal maniacs Gruesome stuff. But how different is this, in substance, ‘We should phase ourselves out’ from what is promoted by Negative Population Growth? The VHEMT promotes itself as more “reasonable” than NPG, keep in mind, has considerable “respectability” among the GLF, since it supports “voluntary,” rather than “involun- British and Anglophile American influentials. It regularly tary” approaches to human extinction. On inspection, how- places advertisements in major American newspapers, with ever, the VHEMT policies are no less draconian. its demands for a reduction of the American population to The group was founded in 1991, in Portland, Oregon, by 150 million or lower. Such ad placements obviously require Les Knight, a schoolteacher. His stated purpose is to “phase substantial sums of money. One key source of funds, is the out” the human race, primarily through putting a “stop at Nebraska mega-billionaire Warren Buffett, whose possible once, to all reproduction.” According to Knight, “each child links to a circle of high-level satanic child abusers in that increases the environmental impact of a family by 50%, and state, have become a matter of public controversy.3 two children do so by 100%.” NPG has infiltrated its ideas into one current of what On June 8, 1994, Knight was interviewed on BBC World passes for mainstream political debate these days in the Service’s “Outlook” program. The BBC interviewer, who United States, by its opposition to immigration. Its central, chirped that Knight’s views were “very interesting,” reported that the VHEMT was gaining support from elements of the 3. See John W. DeCamp, The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism, environmentalist movement in the United States. Knight told and Murder in Nebraska (Lincoln, Neb.: AWT, Inc., 1992, second edition BBC: “Having made such a mess of the world, we should 1996).

24 Feature EIR July 18, 1997 racist argument, is that immigrants breed more than non- half-century, regardless of whatever progress might be made immigrant Americans, and so are the driving force behind in reducing fertility.” population growth. NPG propaganda was widely on display He rejects as “ridiculous,” suggestions that “extraterres- during California’s anti-immigration campaign, a couple of trial migration” could help solve the problem of “excess years back. Their work was cited positively by “conservative human population, in either the near or more distant future.” Christian” Pat Buchanan, and their arguments were adopted, He declares that “it is extremely important to come to terms in significant part, by California Gov. Pete Wilson. One with the fact that the earth’s long-term . . . finds the NPG in constant communication with neo-conser- is indeed finite, . . . notwithstanding the high probability of vative anti-immigrant groups and propagandists. continued scientific/technological progress.” And further: The ideas of NPG’s head, Donald Mann, as well as “Assertions that the earth ‘might’ be able to support a popula- those of the NPG’s Paul Ehrlich, are promoted by a group in tion of 10, 15 or even 20 billion for an ‘indefinite’ period Britain called the Council for Posterity. This group, affiliated of time, at a standard of living ‘superior’ to the present, are closely with the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and not only demonstrably false, but also cruelly misleading. Cultural Organization (Unesco), is politically and philosoph- Rather, ongoing analysis by ecologists, demographers and ically close to Oxford University Darwinian fanatic Richard numerous others, suggests that it is quite likely that the Dawkins, to New Dark Age fiction writer Sir William earth’s true carrying capacity...hasalready been exceeded Golding (Lord of the Flies), and to the chief British inventors by a factor or more.” of the Gaia/Mother Earth mythos, James Lovelock and Ed- Bringing population to a level no more than 2 billion, ward Goldsmith, the latter the brother of, and recipient of and perhaps no higher than 500 million, will not be a simple funds from, wheeler-dealer Sir James Goldsmith. The Coun- matter, Smail raves: “Obviously, a numerical dislocation of cil of Posterity also promotes the ideas of such British Mal- this magnitude will require a massive reorientation of human thusians of the past as Unesco founder Julian Huxley and thought, expectations and values. . . . Put most simply, there H.G. Wells. seems to be no alternative to the premise, that a very signifi- In 1995, NPG began distributing an essay entitled, “Con- cant population reduction must necessarily follow population fronting the 21st Century’s Hidden Crisis: Reducing Human stabilization. . . . For the stark reality is this. Population Numbers by 80%.” It was authored, in May 1995, by J. regulation is the primary issue facing humanity; all other Kenneth Smail, a professor of anthropology at Kenyon matters are subordinate.” College, in Gambier, Ohio, who gives courses in “biological anthropology.” Smail’s article is written in bloodless, aca- The new Malthusian organizing drive demic language, but it is a document that is 1,000 times As we indicated above, a key figure in NPG, is Lindsey more bloodcurdling, in content, than Hitler’s Mein Kampf. Grant. Grant’s writings are frequently cited or recommended He begins: “My position is simply stated. Within the in NPG literature, and it is he who edits the documents (under next half-century, it will be essential for the human species the title, “NPG Footnotes”) distributed by NPG. During the to have fully operational a flexibly designed, broadly equita- latter 1970s, Grant was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of ble and internationally coordinated set of initiatives, fo- State for Environment and Population Affairs; he was the cussed on reducing the then-current world population by at State Department coordinator for the infamous Global 2000 least 80%. Given that even with the best of intentions it will project of the Carter White House; his rise at State is related take considerable time and exceptional diplomatic skill to to the NSSM-200 document commissioned by Kissinger. In develop and implement such an undertaking, perhaps on the its argumentation that population growth in the developing order of 25 to 50 years, it is important that the process of world would impede U.S. access to vital strategic raw materi- consensus-building—local, national and global—begin als, NSSM-200 should be seen as providing a before-the-fact now.” rationalization for the raw materials grab and genocide that Smail then enumerates a series of “essential, incontro- we now see occurring in Africa. vertible and inescapable realities,” the which make mass The policies incorporated in NSSM-200 and Global 2000 murder absolutely required. He rejects “zero population are now receiving a new shot in the arm, in part through the growth” approaches as inadequate, since, even if imple- efforts of Cornell University professor David Pimentel, who, mented, “human population would nevertheless continue its with Grant and Ehrlich, is among the most frequently cited rapid rate of expansion.” This charming creature further in NPG literature. exclaims: “Unless there appears a deadly pandemic, a devas- In 1994, Pimentel presented a report to the American As- tating world war, or a massive breakdown in public health sociation for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), in which (or a combination of all three), it is inevitable that ongoing he and his co-authors argue for an “optimal” global population global gains in human longevity will continue to make a of 1-2 billion. The report states that “a drastic demographic major contribution to population expansion over the next adjustment to 1 to 2 billion humans will cause serious social,

EIR July 18, 1997 Feature 25 economic, and political problems,” but that these are prefera- ble to the presumed consequences of “rapid population growth to 12 billion or more.” In his above-quoted paper, Smail mentions having received a personal communication from Pimentel, evidently Ugandan mass-murderer soon after that 1994 report to the AAAS, indicating that Pimentel was drastically lowering his estimation of what chairs ‘2020 Vision’ the “global optimum” should be. Writes Smail, citing Pimen- tel: “Actually, this 2 billion estimate may be somewhat on by Marcia Merry Baker and the generous side, particularly in light of the fact that some Joseph Brewda recent projections for the earth’s long-term carrying capa- city have been set much lower, in the one-half to 1 billion range.” It is fitting that the figurehead for a high-publicity world food Pimentel is on the executive committee of a new group, control policy initiative, set up in 1993, called “A 2020 Vision the U.S. Population Policy Project (USPPP), which re- for Food, Agriculture, and the Environment,” is none other leased its Planning Document on May 30 of this year. The than President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, who is chairman group’s “Project Focus” is described as follows: “The Devel- of its international advisory committee. The credentials of opment and Implementation of a Domestic Population Policy Museveni in causing death and suffering in Central Africa in the United States, to Achieve Long-term Environmental match the evil character of “2020 Vision.” The “2020” policy and Economic Sustainability.” As footnoted recommended amounts to green genocide, and the individuals and agencies literature, the USPPP cites the writings of Pimentel; Lindsey behind it, are promoting genocide by design, not by blunder. Grant; Paul and Anne Ehrlich; the British Medical Journal; “2020 Vision” was set up as an arm of the Washington, the Carrying Capacity Network; and others of the Malthu- D.C.-based International Food Policy Research Institute (IF- sian species. PRI), whose direction and funding are linked directly to the In its Planning Document, the USPPP proposes to initiate London-serving sponsors of the policy of using food as a a “three-year interdisciplinary project,” leading to a “national weapon, over the past 25-30 years. These sponsors include population policy conference, and follow-up activities to financial, commodities cartels, and geopolitical interests; they develop and implement a coherent, fair U.S. population pol- are the same networks backing Museveni’s marcher-lord role icy.” The document asserts that “the first serious attempt to in Central Africa. develop a population policy was in Chicago, June 7-11, The role of “2020 Vision” today, is best seen as a continua- 1970, when the First National Congress on Optimum Popula- tion of the goals of the 1974, more recently declassified mem- tion and Environment (COPE) was convened.” This was orandum by then-U.S. National Security Adviser Henry Kis- followed by the “Rockefeller Commission,” officially known singer, “NSSM-200.” That document identified 13 target as President Nixon’s Commission on Population Growth countries, against which food would be used as a weapon, for and the American Future. population reduction and political control. The document goes on: “In early 1974, the Nixon Admin- Today, “2020 Vision” issues policy documents, holds istration undertook a comprehensive study, ‘National Secu- conferences, and issues press releases, to promote pessimism rity Memorandum 200’ [sic], of population growth and its and confusion on population and resources potential. IFPRI implications for United States national security and overseas is chaired by David E. Bell, professor emeritus of the Harvard interests. The United States contributed many of the findings Center for Population and Development Studies. IFPRI is a and recommendations in this report to the draft plan of the member of the network of agriculture research centers, called approaching World Population Conference, to be held in CGIAR, which is headed by Ismail Serageldin, World Bank Bucharest. Later, in 1974, the United Nations held its first Vice President for Environmentally Sustainable Devel- international conference on population in Bucharest. The opment. U.S. delegation was led by Caspar Weinberger, President The propaganda line from “2020 Vision” includes the Nixon’s secretary of HEW. For the first time, overpopulation following lies: was identified as a critical global issue.” • High-tech agriculture is associated with unsustainable The document discusses other key moments in this Mal- economic output. thusian proces, the UN population conferences in Mexico • Low-tech agriculture is congenial to sustainable eco- City (1984) and Cairo (1994), the 1995 formation of the nomic output for limited , and congenial to the en- President’s Council on , etc. A vironment. consistent theme, throughout, is that the U.S. government • depends not on thriving national agricul- has been dragging its feet on implementing the necessary tural and industrial sectors, but on access to world markets measures, so, now, more decisive action must be taken. (“free trade”—meaning trade rigged on behalf of oligarchical

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